Over 30 medical staffs from Wuhan Union Hospital's Internal Medicine Department have volunteered to form a support team to combat pneumonia outbreak caused by novel coronavirus. They will be soon assigned to a local fever clinic. / Xinhua photo

Zhang Zhan from Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Department of Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University did not even tell her husband that she was volunteering to fight the virus on the front line, saying battlefield always exists in daily life. /People's Daily photo

'SARS hero' Zhong Nanshan, 84-year-old renowned expert on respiratory diseases, headed to Wuhan to help combat the outbreak. /Guangzhou Daily photo

Medical staff from different departments and hospitals are working together to save lives. Some of them have already contacted the virus. /Hubei Daily photo